www.kimskorner4teachertalk.com [Under Reading/Literature Tab] Teacher-made website geared for middle school teachers.

Site includes ideas about reading, writing, other subject areas, and classroom management. Starfall.com The Starfall reading program is designed to be fun, exciting, and to instill confidence in young children as they learn to read. The website and companion printed materials are clear and effective tools to help you implement proven teaching methods. Our website was created by carefully observing the way children learn using a computer. The Starfall Website is easy for students to navigate independently, but it is not intended as a surrogate for the teacher. Our scientific, research-based reading materials and activities are modeled on the "Big Five" focus areas recommended by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development: phonemic awareness, systematic phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. We built-in a sixth we'd prefer not be overlookedMotivation! Guysread.com This is a great website for your male readers of all ages who may be apprehensive about reading. Specifically, the site will help navigate male readers to books that guys like or topics that guys are interested in reading. The boy friendly website encourages boys to read nonfiction, humor, comics, graphics, novels, action adventure, and other electronic media that pertains to boys. Ultimately, the site is encourages males to read and by reading one will learn and become a better reader. Reading is reading and it is all beneficial. This is a fantastic site to make some noise for boys! http://ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/reports/topic.aspx?tid=01 What Works Clearinghouse. While I think the site itself is helpful, I'm attaching the link for the internention/summary reports for beginning reading. If you are in a position to select curriculum for your school or you are trying to weigh programs that you don't know much about, this site gives really easy to read summaries and

has relatively high rigor for its research. I think if this site continues to grow, it could be a good first stop for reading/writing (and other) curriculum searches. http://www.eastsideliteracy.org/tutorsupport/RW/RWTips.htm Continuing on the "different" path in seeking websites, this next site was created to provide support to reading tutors. Although we are teachers and not tutors, it's nice in that everything, including the lessons, are in the most basic form which is a good starting off point for creating a more individualized lesson plan. I think it also has great for material for newletters home (if your school does that). It gives ideas for what students and families can do at home to bring reading alive and make it relevant for learners. http://www.reading.org/resources/podcasts/index.html http://www.reading.org/resources/podcasts O.K., this last one is kind of out there, but if you're anything like me you might find it interesting. The International Reading Association has a number of articles filled with ideas for teaching reading and writing. The neat part of it is though, that they've created podcasts of them which are available free of charge to download into MP3 format. They might not all be terrifically interesting, but I think it's a convenient way to connect with some new ideas -maybe not during a workout, but stuck in traffic on the way home it might feel nice to listen to some of these podcasts and feel like you're actually getting something done while you're sitting there. http://www.readwritethink.org/index.asp This website is very helpful when stumped for ideas. Read Write Think provides lesson plans and interactive tools for the classroom, all language arts based. The International Reading Association addresses all members of the classroom and provides plenty of information to help plan successful lessons. http://saxonpublishers.harcourtachieve.com/enUS/saxonpublishers.htm Saxon Phonics provides an interactive resource for students and teachers about reading. Saxon teaches in steps, scaffolding the

material for the student. In the resource center, Saxon supplies material such as lesson plans and correlating material based on your state's standards. http://pbskids.org/lions/ This site offers many literacy resources, activities, recommended books and curriculum materials for the younger readers. There is a Parents and Teacher section that offers curriculum and various other printable activities. www.orcabook.com This site provides age-appropriate discussion questions, and curriculum. There are also lessons about relevant vocabulary, literary devices and grammar points. http://www2.scholastic.com On the Scholastic website one could find lesson plans, strategies, tools and printables for students PreK-12. There is even a section for new teachers. There are book-based lesson plans available, too! http://www.readingrockets.org/ Reading Rockets gives teachers strategies to help kids that struggle with reading. This website also lists techniques for teaching reading. Reading Rockets offers "hundreds of articles that provide research-based and best-practice information for educators."